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At the Window, rue des Trois Frères
French, 1830–1903
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Camille Pissarro composed this pastel in front of a window in his apartment in the Montmartre district of Paris. He used his wife Julie as a model, as well as two young girls, who possibly memorialize his recently deceased daughters. Pissarro created many works at his rural residences outside of Paris, but in this pastel he embraced the interior—yet visibly urban—setting of his rented home. Even indoors, Pissarro found a way to investigate the effects of natural light, which is characteristic of his Impressionist style.
France (Artist's nationality)
Made 1878
Pastel on cream wove pastel paper, perimeter mounted on light gray wove paper
Signed and dated recto, lower right, in white pastel, over light blue pastel: C Pissarro"
Primary support: 38 × 26.3 cm (15 × 10 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 38.2 × 26.4 cm (15 1/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/186398/manifest.json
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son oeuvre, vol. 1, Texte (P. Rosenberg, 1939), p. 293, no. 1540.
Ludovic Rodo Pissarro and Lionello Venturi, Camille Pissarro: Son art—son oeuvre, vol. 2, Planche (P. Rosenberg, 1939), p. 296, no. 47.
"Cat. 7: At the Window, rue des Trois-Frères," in Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago, eds. Gloria Groom and Genevieve Westerby (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), https://publications.artic.edu/pissarro/reader/paintingsandpaper/section/8L.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, "Centenaire de la naissance de Camille Pissarro," Feb.–Mar. 1930, cat. 31.
Wellesley (Mass.) College Museums, Jewett Art Center, Mar. 29–June 8, 1986 (no cat.).
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master through Modern; The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, cat. 85 (ill.).
Estate of the artist, from 1903; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Dec. 3, 1928, lot 18, to Marcel Bernheim. André Devilder (1868–1952), Phalempin, France, by 1930 [Paris 1930]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Nov. 21, 1932, lot 74, to Marcel Bernheim. Sold, Sotheby's, London, Dec. 5, 1984, lot 311, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2012.
Cat. 7 At the Window, rue des Trois-Frères, 1878-79
Prints and drawing
Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook, 1894/95
The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893
The Crystal Palace, 1871
Woman and Child at the Well, 1882
Young Peasant Having Her Coffee, 1881
Rabbit Warren at Pontoise, Snow, 1879
The Banks of the Marne in Winter, 1866
Haymaking at Éragny, 1892
Snow at Louveciennes, c. 1870
Woman Mending, 1895
Setting Sun, 1879
Camille Pissarro, A Self-Portrait, c. 1890


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A PhD or MPhil in Ancient History enables you to undertake a substantial project led by your own passions and interests.
The PhD takes three years full-time or six years part-time, and the MPhil takes two years full-time or four years part-time.
You submit a thesis of up to 100,000 words for PhD assessment and 60,000 words for MPhil assessment, demonstrating original research with a significant contribution to the subject area. This is followed by an oral examination of the thesis (a viva voce examination, or viva).
In both programmes you will work at an elite academic level, conducting original research connected with the history and archaeology of ancient Greece and Rome.
Our expertise spans from the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to the history of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century Europe. The research of our staff and postgraduates is integral to the life of the department, making Swansea a dynamic and stimulating place to study.
A number of research groups also offer focus and community for staff and postgraduates:
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Working at an elite academic level, you are introduced to key concepts and interpretative techniques shaping the study of ancient civilisations in the modern world.
You will develop and hone research skills needed for high-level work in any field of ancient history, while skills and training programmes available on campus provide further support. You will have the opportunity to deliver presentations to research students and staff at departmental seminars, and at the Postgraduate conference.
You may also have the chance to teach undergraduate tutorials and seminars from the second year, for which you receive training and payment. Financial support is also provided (subject to approval) for attending conferences or conducting research away from Swansea.
PhD: Applicants for PhD must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level and a master's degree with a minimum overall grade at 'Merit'. Alternatively, applicants with a UK first class honours degree (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University) not holding a master's degree, will be considered on an individual basis. See - Country-specific Information for European Applicants 2019 and Country-specific Information for International Applicants 2019.
As standard, two references are required before we can progress applications to the School's research programme Admissions Tutor for consideration.
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This PhD in Ancient History at Swansea will enable you to undertake a substantial project led by your own interests. It is a highly respected qualification which can present a career in academia or a wider scope for employment in fields such as education, government or the private sector. A thesis of 100,000 words will be submitted for assessment demonstrating original research with a substantive contribution to the subject area. The PhD is examined following an oral examination of the thesis (a viva voce examination or viva voce). You will acquire research skills for high-level work and skills and training programmes are available on campus for further support. There will be an opportunity to deliver presentations to research students and staff at departmental seminars and conferences. There may also be opportunities to develop your teaching skills through undergraduate tutorials, demonstrations and seminars.
Doctoral researchers for the PhD in Ancient History are examined in two parts.
Doctoral researchers will be supervised by a supervisory team. Where appropriate, staff from School's other than the 'home' School (other School's) within the University will contribute to cognate research areas. There may also be supervisors from an industrial partner.
Conceptualise, design and implement a project aimed at the generation of new knowledge or applications within Ancient History.
Make informed judgements on complex issues in the field of Ancient History, often in the absence of complete data and defend those judgements to an appropriate audience.
A range of research seminars and skills development sessions are provided within the School and across the University. These are scheduled to keep the doctoral researcher in touch with a broader range of material than their own research topic, to stimulate ideas in discussion with others, and to give them opportunities to such as defending their own thesis orally, and to identify potential criticisms. Additionally, the School is developing a research culture that aligns with the University vision and will link with key initiatives delivered under the auspices of the University's Academies, for example embedding the HEA fellowship for postgraduate research students.
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This MPhil in Ancient History at Swansea will enable you to undertake a substantial project led by your own interests. It is a highly respected qualification which can present a career in academia or a wider scope for employment in fields such as education, government or the private sector. A thesis of 60,000 words will be submitted for assessment demonstrating original research with a substantive contribution to the subject area. The Masters is examined following an oral examination of the thesis (a viva voce examination or viva). You will acquire research skills for high-level work and skills and training programmes are available on campus for further support. There will be an opportunity to deliver presentations to research students and staff at departmental seminars and conferences.
Key skills needed to undertake advanced academic and non-academic research including qualitative and quantitative data analysis
Students for the Masters in Ancient History are examined in two parts.
Students will be supervised by a supervisory team. Where appropriate, staff from School's other than the 'home' School (other School's) within the University will contribute to cognate research areas. There may also be supervisors from an industrial partner.
Make informed judgements on complex issues in the field of Ancient History often in the absence of complete data and defend those judgements to an appropriate audience.
A range of research seminars and skills development sessions are provided within the School and across the University. These are scheduled to keep the student in touch with a broader range of material than their own research topic, to stimulate ideas in discussion with others, and to give them opportunities to such as defending their own thesis orally, and to identify potential criticisms. Additionally, the School is developing a research culture that will align with the University vision and will link with key initiatives delivered under the auspices of the University's Academies, for example embedding the HEA fellowship for postgraduate research students.

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Samuel Rowold was reported missing from his home in Ada, Ohio, about 85 miles north of Dayton, Friday afternoon. His body was found near his home just hours later.
HARDIN COUNTY — UPDATE @ 2:30 p.m. (Feb. 26):
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Country duo Dan + Shay recently shared a new single, "Lying," along with an accompanying music video.
The duo, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney, co-wrote "Lying" with Andy Albert and Jordan Reynolds. The accompanying video was directed by Dani Vitale and Patrick Tracy.
The clip, which is set in a dive bar, shows the singers performing the track and then joining a group of dancers.
"I don't miss you in my bed / I don't hear you in my head / I don't love you, I'm not cryin' / And I swear, I'm not lyin'," Dan + Shay sings in the chorus.
"Lying" is the latest song from the band's new album, Good Things, due out August 13. Good Things features 12 tracks, including "10,000 Hours," a collaboration with Justin Bieber that originally dropped in 2019, "Glad You Exist," and the recently unveiled title track.
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The state of news subscriptions – and a newsworthy approach worth considering
December 12, 2019 Analysis
Doggedly following the pace of the duopoly and facing falling print revenue, they anxiously watch as an increasing number of rivals drop out. And let's face it, the route has only continued to slope uphill.
The next great hope is in digital subscriptions. Over the course of 2019, revenue growth was strong for many of the larger publishers that have been investing in subscription marketing and retention. The New York Times – effectively the poster child for news subscription success – reported its highest ever subscriber total in August: 4.7 million paid subscriptions across digital and print, of which close to 3.5 million are digital. Times' CEO Mark Thomson said: "We're making steady progress toward our goal of reaching 10 million total subscriptions by 2025." A big part of that, as we've previously reported, is by converting young people to paid subscribers.
Meanwhile, the Guardian achieved its ambitious break-even target of financial stability by mid-2019, as 655,000 regular monthly supporters and a 300,000 one-off contributions buoyed their balance sheets. This suggests that readers do not necessarily even expect exclusive content to pay what is effectively a subscription in all but name. Similarly, Wired has claimed success after introducing a paywall in 2018, announcing a 300% increase in the number of digital subscribers.
Nor do the titles need to be international in scope to make successes of paywalls: a few years after launching a digital subscription the Shawnee Mission Post has over 2,500 subscribers. That's more than enough for a local title that employs three people full-time. In the UK, too, more regional titles are launching paywalls as well. Some of JPI Media's newspapers with larger circulations are currently trialling paywalls, too.
Overall, WAN-IFRA's World Press Trends report found that: "Digital news subscriber numbers worldwide have increased 208% over five years to 2018 and are expected to grow by a further 13% in 2019."
Smart paywall strategies
Small wonder then that so many news publishers are following the leaders and attempting to make digital subscriptions a larger part of their business strategy. There are countless examples of investment into smart paywalls, better retention efforts, and into data tools designed with the sole intention of signing up users.
That's not to say that erecting a paywall is a guarantee of survival. Joshua Benton's in-depth look into the L.A. Times' disappointing subscription results in July makes it clear that if even one of those areas of investment is neglected, the result is that a publisher can be left running in place. They face failing to sign up sufficient subscribers or worse, a loss of existing ones.
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Villares participated in the last three Havana Biennials, and his work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States as part of several group exhibitions.
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United Methodist Church (Demolished)
Derbyshire Places of Worship
Other Places of Worship in this Area
Rosliston, St Mary the Virgin's Church
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Cauldwell, St Giles's Church
Coton in the Elms, St Mary's Church
Cauldwell, Cauldwell Baptist Chapel
Coton in the Elms, Methodist Chapel
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Linton, Castle Gresley, Christ Church
Walton on Trent, Baptist Meeting Room (Demolished)
Walton on Trent, St Laurence's Church
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Castle Gresley, High Cross Banks Methodist Church
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United Methodist Church (Demolished), Rosliston
United Methodist Church (Demolished),
Main Street,
Rosliston, Derbyshire.
We believe the Church did NOT have a graveyard.
Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.
This Place of Worship was founded before 1883, but we understand it was closed in 1974.
This place of worship is shown on Old Maps for the periods 1883 (labelled as "Methodist Chapel (Free United)", 1923 (labelled as "U.M. Chapel", and 1963, by which time it was simply "Meth Ch".
Its closure was recorded in the following notice in The London Gazette of 28th June 1974 (p.7437):
The Registrar General, being satisfied that METHODIST CHURCH, Rosliston in the registration district of Swadlincote in the County of Derby, is no longer used as a place of worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was on 19th March 1945 registered for marriages in accordance with the Marriage Act, 1836, has cancelled the registration. Dated 21st June 1974.
It was situated in Main Street opposite its junction with New Street, and next to (on the right of) The Plough Inn; however so far as I can tell in the present day, it has been demolished, and its site is in residential use.
Now or formerly Free/United Methodist.
If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication.
This Church was located at OS grid reference SK2460116544. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
United Methodist Church (Demolished), Rosliston shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Rosliston shown on a Google Map.
Old Maps (www.old-maps.co.uk) (verified 2018-10-15)
Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15)
Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13)
Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15)
Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15)
OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15)
A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15)
www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15)
I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Rosliston, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.
Notices of Civil Registration of Places of Worship for marriages are published in the London edition of The Gazette. Hint: search for registrations from 1998 by choosing 'Church' notices, and the option 'Registration for solemnising marriage'. (verified 2018-12-11)
The above links were selected and reviewed at the time I prepared the information, but please be aware their content may vary, or disappear entirely. These factors are outside my control.
Information last updated on 3 Dec 2013 at 14:58.
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You can specify either a Place, or OS Grid Reference to search for. When you specify a Place, only entries for that place will be returned, with Places of Worship listed in alphabetical order. If you specify a Grid Reference, Places of Worship in the immediate vicinity will be listed, in order of distance from the Grid Reference supplied. The default is to list 10, but you can specify How Many you want to see, up to a maximum of 100.
You can further refine your search by supplying other search terms.
You can specify entries with ('Yes') or without ('No') photographs.
You can specify a church or chapel's Dedication, to restrict entries to those containing the term you supply as a dedication. So for instance, 'John' would return 'St John', 'St Mary and St John', 'St John the Divine' &c.
You can specify a Street address, and likewise 'George' will return George Place, St George's Street, George and Dragon, &c.
You can restrict the search to classes of Denomination. The exact denomination is always shown in the results, although the search is for broad types. So you can search for 'Methodist', but not 'Wesleyan Methodist' or 'Primitive Methodist'. 'Multi-denominational' includes Ecumenical Partnerships, and 'Miscellaneous' means anything not covered by other broad classes.
Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.
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This Report was created 21 Jan 2020 - 01:51:11 GMT from information held in the Derbyshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 6 Feb 2019 at 15:49.
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NDP membership triples ahead of fall leadership vote
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Posted August 29, 2017 12:52 pm
Around 124,000 members will be eligible to vote in the upcoming NDP leadership election.	 File / Global News
The federal New Democratic Party says it has tripled its membership ahead of the fall leadership vote that will see the party elect a permanent replacement for Tom Mulcair.
In a release issued Tuesday afternoon, the NDP said it was "proud to announce" that more than 124,000 members will be eligible to vote for the new leader.
"This figure represents a three-fold increase from the 41,000 who were members at the end of March 2017," the release notes.
The biggest boost came from Ontario, where 52,200 members are now registered on the party's official list. Next, comes B.C. at 31,974, followed by Alberta (10,188), Manitoba (10,134) and Saskatchewan (8,083).
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In Quebec, the province where a wave of support allowed the NDP to catapult into official Opposition in 2011, only 4,907 members are registered. That's only about half the number the party had signed up there in 2012.
In order to be eligible to cast a ballot, members had to register before Aug. 17. It's unclear how many new members were recruited by each of the four remaining leadership candidates.
Those candidates include (in no particular order) Manitoba MP Niki Ashton, Quebec MP Guy Caron, Ontario MP Charlie Angus and Ontario MLA Jagmeet Singh. The significant membership base in Ontario may prove particularly beneficial to Angus and Singh, while the low numbers in Quebec may hurt Caron.
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The party says it will begin mailing out voting packages in early September. Unlike the Conservative Party's leadership mail-in ballot last spring, the NDP are relying on an online system. Voting starts on Sept. 18, with results of the first ballot announced on Oct. 1 in Toronto.
"If no candidate receives a majority of the vote, the second and third round results announcements would take place in Montreal on October 8 and in Ottawa on October 15," Tuesday's release explained.
The party's last attempt at electronic voting ran into significant problems in 2012 when hackers repeatedly attempted to disrupt the proceedings.
During that race, only around half of the NDP's then 128,350 eligible members voted in the first round.
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Top 50 Stand-Up Comedians: No. 6 – Eddie Murphy
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Well, hello there.
My name is Drew Creasman and I used to be a regular contributor here at Hardwood and Hollywood. Almost exactly a year ago, however, I got an awesome job offer to cover the Colorado Rockies regularly for BSN Denver and that immediately became my primary, secondary, and thirdiary focus.
Unfortunately, that means I left my peeps here – both editors and readers – hanging a bit. See, I had just finished publishing my list of the Top Comic Book Adaptations of All Time and was nearing the end of a list of the Top Stand-Up Comedians of All Time. Finishing the latter list became a task that kept getting kicked down the road … until now.
So after one year of leaving the list hanging at No. 7, I present the Top 6 beginning with:
No. 6: Eddie Murphy
Believe it or not kids, there was a time when Eddie Murphy was the "Raw"est man on the planet. Long before he was Donkey – much love for Donkey (and Mushu from Mulan!) – and generally consigned to doing kid-friendly material, Murphy was making a name as one of the most foul-mouthed, and damn hilarious, comedians in the game.
He was the first, and in many ways still the very best, stand-up comedian to make the jump to Blockbuster big screen comedies with an absurd string of hits that included the Beverly Hills Cop series, Coming to America, and Trading Places. Just to name a few. Those are all classics that (mostly) hold up today.
And if you happened to get your comedy not from stand-up or movies, but instead from television sketch comedy, there was Murphy carrying Saturday Night Live with some all-time memorable performances. The 80s simply belonged to Eddie Murphy.
"Raw" and "Delirious" remain two of the greatest stand-up specials ever and no amount of Norbit can erase that. He may be more widely known for his odd, Dr. Doolittle and Nutty Professor-type fare, but anyone who saw Murphy before that phase of his career will forever remember him as the baddest dude in comedy for a very long time. It's frustrating at times for those who prefer his raunchier stuff, but it is a testament to his range that Murphy can claim to have held the crown in R-rated, as well as G-rated, comedy at one point decades apart.
This is a list that is only taking stand-up into account, which Murphy has done far less lately, but his overall material still stands the test of time. The cookout story (at about the 14-minute mark in the video below) is practically a blueprint for how to tell a great story on a stage. A lack of recent stand-up just barely keeps him out of the Top 5.
But there is no conversation about comedy in any medium that is complete without naming the astounding contributions of Eddie Murphy.
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René Gervais, né le  à La Teste-de-Buch en Gironde et mort le  à Port-Louis dans le Morbihan, est un aviateur français, officier des services de renseignement pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Chef du Service de renseignement « Air » en France de 1942 à 1944, il collecte des renseignements pour le compte de la France libre et des Alliés. Il est compagnon de la Libération.

Après la guerre, il continue dans le renseignement, dirige une partie de la Direction générale des services spéciaux puis de la Direction générale des études et recherches. Il est plus tard le premier vice-président de la Fédération nationale aéronautique.

Biographie
Né en 1908, René Jean Gervais est le fils d'un comptable devenu menuisier. Sa mère est institutrice et devient directrice d'école.

Polytechnicien, jeune officier d'aviation
Il réussit le concours d'entrée à l'École polytechnique, qu'il intègre en 1928. À sa sortie, il choisit l'Armée de l'air, comme sous-lieutenant en .

Il commande l'escadrille de bombardement « 6/21 », de 1933 à 1934. Il passe ensuite au centre d'essais de Cazaux, où il sert jusqu'en . Nommé le mois suivant au Centre d'essais du matériel aérien de Villacoublay, il y est encore lors de l'armistice de .

Officier de renseignement
Sollicité en  par le colonel Ronin, son ancien commandant de groupe, il accepte immédiatement de continuer la lutte. En , il fait partie du Service de renseignement de l'Armée de l'air (« SR Air »). Affecté dans la zone sud (zone libre), à la frontière espagnole, il est chargé d'étudier la pénétration allemande en Espagne.

Nommé à Vichy en , il y rassemble les renseignements sur l'occupation allemande en zone occupée, ainsi que sur l'industrie aéronautique allemande. Il envoie ces renseignements par radio à Londres, à partir du poste dont il dispose comme adjoint.

Responsable du Service de renseignement « Air »
Au moment de l'invasion de la zone libre par les Allemands en , Gervais est choisi comme chef du Service de renseignement « Air » en France. Son domicile est perquisitionné par la Gestapo en , heureusement en son absence ; mais cela interrompt temporairement ses liaisons. Il s'efforce alors de rétablir les liaisons radio avec Londres.

Il met en place et dirige un « important réseau de renseignement », au profit des Alliés et de la France libre. Il réceptionne les émetteurs-récepteurs radio, et les répartit sur le territoire. Il remplit personnellement les missions les plus dangereuses, terrestres ou aériennes, presque mensuellement à partir de .

Gervais utilise les avions affectés à son service pour organiser le départ des agents trop recherchés, et des évadés. Il communique régulièrement avec Londres et Alger, aussi bien par courrier codé que par radio et par liaisons aériennes, ce qui permet de transmettre les renseignements militaires importants. Les renseignements qu'il donne ainsi vaudront les félicitations des états-majors français et alliés. Il assure aussi les liaisons de commandement régulières, et quitte lui-même la France le  pour Londres et Alger, puis obtient de revenir en France pour continuer sa mission malgré les recherches de la Gestapo, jusqu'en .

À cette date, les arrestations se multiplient dans son entourage proche, et il reçoit l'ordre formel de quitter le territoire français pour l'Afrique du Nord, par mesure de sécurité. Il continue de diriger son réseau et d'animer de l'extérieur son service de renseignement, jusqu'à la Libération.

Après la Libération
Après la Libération, René Gervais continue de servir dans le renseignement, à Alger puis à Paris, comme responsable d'une section de la Direction générale des services spéciaux qui devient la Direction générale des études et recherches.

En  au Maroc, il reprend de l'entraînement aérien, le continue ensuite en Angleterre puis en France. Il est compagnon de la Libération par décret du , et promu lieutenant-colonel le  suivant.

Directeur d'entreprise, vice-président de la fédération

René Gervais démissionne de l'Armée de l'air en 1946, et devient directeur d'une entreprise de conserverie alimentaire, en Bretagne. Il participe à la juridiction consulaire en 1955-1956, comme juge-doyen du Tribunal de commerce de Lorient.

Il entre ensuite en 1963 chez Ratier-Figeac, un constructeur aéronautique, comme conseiller technique jusqu'en 1965. Il est par ailleurs vice-président de l'Association nationale des officiers de réserve de l'Armée de l'air, de 1963 à 1977.

Il est le premier vice-président de la Fédération nationale aéronautique, de 1972 à 1978.

René Gervais est mort le  à Port-Louis dans le Morbihan. Il y est enterré au cimetière de Kerzo.

Distinctions et hommages

Décorations
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  par décret du .
  avec trois palmes.
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  (officier).

Autres hommages
 Une plaque porte son nom devant la citadelle de Port-Louis sur le mémorial à la Croix de Lorraine, dans le Morbihan.
 Une rue porte son nom à Port-Louis.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
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Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des compagnons de la Libération
 Résistance intérieure française

Liens externes

 « René Gervais », biographie sur le site de l'ordre de la Libération.
 Biographie des  sur le site de l'ordre de la Libération.

Colonel français
Aviateur français
Espion français de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Personnalité du renseignement
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
Compagnon de la Libération
Titulaire de la croix de guerre 1939-1945
Élève de l'École polytechnique
Naissance en août 1908
Naissance à La Teste-de-Buch
Décès en octobre 1997
Décès à Port-Louis (Morbihan)
Décès à 89 ans

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Publicist Egor Efiok was involved in a road mishap some days ago, but she is now much better. Recently, she recounted how her experience at the local hospital she was taken to immediately after the incident while she was still unconscious.
Now, Egor says she has gotten better treatment and is full of thanks to God and the well wishers on her Facebook page. She also shared photos of the healing arm.
This is my arm yesterday. Still very painful and swollen, but it is slowly getting back to shape. I still can't get over the splendid job my ACE Dr Efiok has done. It was in a right mess before I came here.
I was initially rushed to a nearby village hospital after the crash and woke up to see a nurse with a baby strapped on her back sewing my arm like a seamstress sewing material and saying, "Aunty please keep ya hand well make I sew am"...with blood everywhere and nothing to numb the area. Sai! I nearly passed out again from the pain.
My arm was in tatters when I got here with blue rubber stitches roughly scattered everywhere to hold the pieces of torn skin together. Well, I guess that was their way of trying to stop the bleeding. As you can see, all the stitches have now been taken out, as they'd definitely have given me keloids after healing. The arm has practically been 'sandpapered' to ensure that I don't have a scar after it heals.
Despite the pain, I am mad chuffed to be alive and even found time later that evening to stop by my girl, Offiong Kate Henshaw's office to show support. Her campaign is tomorrow, please show some love, Calabar. Special thanks to Koko Henshaw Calabarboy, Lokome and co too, for their great support of Kate. God bless you all.
Blogger, that's actually her husband's hospital in Calabar. He is a consultant gynaecologist and they have been married for twelve years. She has been hiding him but the secret is out now. She posted his photo on her status after her operation last week. I saw in on a blog saying "Egor Efiok Married But Living Single"! Haha! This woman loves attention! I like her though. Very expressive.


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Smallcombe is an English locational surname originating from South West England, particularly the West Country counties of Wiltshire, Devon and Somerset. Small is a description of size and combe is a local word meaning cleft or valley (cf Welsh 'cwm' and Celtic 'cumb'). A 'small combe' is, then, a geographical feature and combe is found in many place names in South West England.

Notable persons with the surname include:
Max Smallcombe (born 1999), Welsh footballer

See also
 Smallacombe
 Smallcombe Cemetery


Our theme for 2019 is Passion for Christ. The LORD Jesus Christ gave himself for us. He lived a sinless life. He suffered and died upon a cross and took upon himself our sin and our death. Because of this we do not have to die and go to Hell.
The least that we can do is give our best for Him! Let us be more passionate in our worship! Let us be more passionate in taking the gospel to those who need to be saved, and let us be more passionate in living our lives for Christ!


The effective planning, design and management of water resources systems for sustainable development are severely hampered in developing countries by five major factors. First, use is frequently made of an incomplete framework for analysis, ignoring positive impacts of development. Second, there is a lack of appropriate methodology for applying environmental impact assessments in these countries. Third, there is a lack of adequate knowledge about the effects of water development projects. Fourth, there are institutional restraints, particularly the division of responsibilities among various ministries. Fifth, monitoring and evaluation are seldom integrated into project management. Each of these interrelated problems is discussed in turn.


Warhaus is the artistic alter ego and solo recording project of Maarten Devoldere who (along with Jinte Deprez) fronts the urbanely soulful Belgian rock band Balthazar. Warhaus' debut album We Fucked A Flame Into Being will be released on September 2nd. The second single, "I'm Not Him," debuts today via Blackbook.
The title of Warhaus' new album, We Fucked A Flame Into Being (a direct quote from Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence), was "too good to pass on!" declares Devoldere. It is indeed a fitting title for an album where every song celebrates the inscrutability of encounters and pays tribute to the decadence and intensity that life can offer.
Although Maarten Devoldere has up until recently kept his Warhaus persona well under the radar, the glimpses offered up to this point (such as the debut track "The Good Lie") have conjured up a darkly esoteric lyrical universe, fueled by desire and love, haunted by a hunger for the fleeting, yearning to express the unsayable; We Fucked A Flame Into Being probes such depths savagely.
"I love contradictions," asserts Devoldere. "They are musically very appealing to me: raw vs. fundamentally passionate, brutal vs. romantic, art vs. Kitsch, archaic vs. modern". The French sixties, a touch of exoticism, a careless apathy: Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg are never far away, as We Fucked A Flame Into Being cleverly coalesces fifty years of music history.


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Turns out he's a sentimental sucker.
For all of his fearless, far-flung globe trotting, Anthony Bourdain can be a real sentimentalist.
When it comes to his absolute favorite food to eat on the road, it's not something exotic in a locale across the world, or something that feels inaccessible to mere mortal Americans who don't have the good fortune to have walked into the Best Job on Earth, currently occupied by Bourdain.
So what's the go-to vacation food he swears by? "I cook on Long Island in the summer," Bourdain told The Boston Globe. "Steamer clams, grilled steak, I make an Italian-style ragu, have lobster night..."
And the foods he loves eating on vacation aren't just about the taste — but about the way they make the chef feel. "It's the food of my childhood," he said. "The vacation food I had as a kid on the Jersey Shore."
Bourdain's Boston Globe interview also provided a wealth of additional travel and food tips and info. For instance, he shared that his "guilty pleasure" food while traveling is something he considers "really disgusting, shameful."
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At SolidWorks World 2011 I sat down with the new CEO Bertrand Sicot and spoke to him about SolidWorks on the Cloud and the issues surrounding it.
Deelip: You made a very profound statement in your speech today when you said that it will never be an either or decision for your customers and that there will always be a desktop version of SolidWorks. I am assuming that this desktop version will be completely offline and will not be required to be connected to the Internet to access the data or anything else.
Bertrand: Yes. Just like it is today.
Deelip: And that will not be a Parasolid based application. It will be running on the new V6 platform.
Bertrand: Well yes. I would say that the technology will be whatever it is. But I'm a big believer that the market will remain on the desktop for a while or at least a part of it. Then users will move online or on the mobile or whatever they want to move to in time. Of course today mobile devices like the iPad really cannot do much in terms of graphical applications. But ten years from now things are going to be different.
Deelip: In my interview with Jeff Ray at DSCC last year he mentioned about a big divide in the company regarding whether to announce the cloud stuff at SolidWorks World 2010 or not. On which side were you?
Bertrand: You see, with my sales background I'm very close to the reality and close to the customers. I think it is good to make a statement when you have a clear plan to deliver something real to the market. So twelve months ago we said that we will have an application online. We called it SolidWorks Connect and it took us a little more than eight months to get it up and now it is called n!Fuse.
Deelip: That is fine. But you also showed solid modeling happening on the cloud. You actually caused a crash on one computer and showed us that the model was saved up to the last feature on another computer since the actual modeling was happening on the cloud and not on the client computers.
Bertrand: True. But please note that was a technology preview. I mean it is one thing to demonstrate feasibility. But then you need to work on delivering an application that could be used in production. So to answer your question, I was on the side of the people who wanted to make a statement at SolidWorks 2010 because that meant pushing people inside the company outside their comfort zone and making them work harder to find a solution. Otherwise you continue to do what you have been doing and one day you wake up and find that somebody has taken the risk that you should have taken back then. It is a good thing that we showed the technological preview. For the past 12 months we got a lot of feedback – technical as well as emotional. In the end it is not about the technology. It is about the user needs. To me if the customers are asking for a complete 3D application online then we will have it. But if it is only a technology to make buzz marketing then I am not interested. That's why making the statement 12 months ago which resulted in the feedback that we got was very helpful. Because then you get the truth.
Deelip: So what is the feedback that you received from your customers in the past 12 months?
Bertrand: In the short term our customers are not looking for a full 3D CAD online application.
Bertrand: I read your recent article on SolidWorks V6. You nailed it. It is exactly that.
Deelip: Why was there complete silence from SolidWorks after the cloud announcement was made. I made several attempts to get statements and clarifications from SolidWorks executives on the burning issues surrounding this announcement. Only recently Jeff Ray and Austin O'Malley have started clarifying things on the SolidWorks blog.
Bertrand: I understand your concern. We had a lot of internal discussions about some options we had to consider. Some key decisions were not made at that time. So that was the reason we were not able to tell you. Now I think you have some clarity because we have taken decisions on some important things.
Deelip: I think I can see different things happening and things happening differently in your time as CEO of SolidWorks.
Bertrand: (smiles) Positively I hope.
Deelip: What is the one thing that you wish you could undo in the last one year?
Bertrand: Undo? I don't think I want to undo anything.
Bertrand: (smiles) Well, how can I put this? I will not stay at the surface. I will ask and ask and ask questions and I need to be convinced. I'm a very pragmatic person. You will see. By pragmatic I mean I do need to see a use for things. Innovation for the sake of innovation is not something that I am interested in.
Deelip: I believe people are looking at you to give a direction to your company at least with regard to it's messaging.
Bertrand: That's exactly what I did this morning. And it was overdue. You know, on a personal note, I am a big believer that in life you have to be yourself. I am a genuine guy and you will get to know me in time. Life is all about people. It could be face to face or connected. But it is all about people.


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Was the 2020 election stolen?
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October 10, 2021 7:27 pm at 7:27 pm #2014249
Opinions only.
No facts.
if its no facts than no.
eishis chayil
absolutely no. biden won fair and square
If it's only opinions, then yes.
Was there fraud? Absolutely. Was it enough to change them outcome? Probably not but there's absolutely no way to be certain.
Fraud has been a hallmark of the Democrat Party for many decades. When Lyndon Johnson stole the election from Nixon on behalf of his running mate John Kennedy in 1960, as is widely known was done by LBJ in Texas and by the Daley crooked political machine in Chicago, it wasn't a new thing for the Democrats. They had much experience. Daley was an old hand as was LBJ and other Democrat machines.
And they didn't suddenly stop committing fraud after stealing 1960. In New Jersey Democrat candidates were convicted of election fraud even in the last decade.
Reb Eliezer
No. Not enough fraud to change the outcome.
October 10, 2021 10:50 pm at 10:50 pm #2014319
how come any post written by reb eliezer it says This reply was modified 19 minutes ago by YW Moderator-29 👨💻.
CHOOSID
HAMOTZEY MECHAVAROH ALAV HARAYAH!!!!!!!
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Participant, aren't you belaboring the obvious that I added something to the original post?
The system considers a moderators approval of a post to be an edit. You'll only see that note if the original poster makes another edit after approval (and doesn't uncheck the show edits option.)
The CHOOSID is clear. An election was done and to undo it proof must be given. The one wanting to undo it must provide the proof not vice versa.
I also have many typos which I correct. Any post does not have it but most and the question was asked before by GH and answered.
I have many posts that correct a previous post when edit is not available.
October 11, 2021 12:02 am at 12:02 am #2014408
Always_Ask_Questions
RebE > I also have many typos which I correct.
RebE's posts are important, thus he bothers to correct them. Others, including mine, are not as important, so the grammer aint metter.
RebE > The CHOOSID is clear. An election was done and to undo it proof must be given.
Or you can read it that Trump was in office already, so Harris had to show that she was elected without hashash of geneiva. [Rosh Hasnana started with saying that count King's years from inauguration, elector meetings do not matter]
Participant -"Was the 2020 election stolen?"
Of course it Was!
There are tons of proof. Just look at Antrim County, Michigan.
The reason that they were able to prove that there – because they had an Honest Judge.
The rest of the Court Cases – either they were DemonCrat Judges or they were Repos – too Scared to Rock the Boat!
I'm glad the way things turned out.
But I feel Sorry for the Middle Class in this Country.
You will almost Never get out of your class Due to taxes!
You guys are Doomed!
But those who voted DemonCrat – you got what you deserved!
October 11, 2021 7:46 am at 7:46 am #2014432
Was the 2020 election stolen. No, it wasn't stolen according to FakeFactCheckers.com.
☕coffee addict
Notwithstanding health,
An election can't be stolen because there is no ממשות so it's not מטלטלין and therefore if it's not מטלטלין it has to be קרקע and קרקע אינו נגזלת
Unless you're talking about the ballots, but the question was about the election and I don't know who owns the ballots after you submit it
AAQ, in a democratic society, every four years the presidency disbands as the president takes a new oath of office. So the election creates a new entity and the proof is on the undoer of the election and not vice versa. Under no condition can he become a president more than eight years.
coffee addict, we don't need patent protection as it cannot be stolen but dinei demalchusei dinei who says it can.
coffee addict, can intellectual property be stolen?
huju
What is so special about this topic? I thought "no facts" was a requirement for all right-wing posts on YWN.
Reb eliezer,
In the 7 Mitzvos Bnei Noach דינים are separate than גזילה
This wouldn't fall under a גזילה דין but rather a דינים דין
I hope you realize I was making a joke in my first post and this is my addition to that joke
CTLAWYER
@RebEliezer
You don't quite understand the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
Your statement that no one can be president more than 8 years is false.
One can only be elected to 2 Four Year terms. BUT, If a person (usually the VP) assumes the Presidency upon its vacancy (Death, Resignation) for no more than two years, that President may be elected twice and serve for no more than TEN years total.
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
yaakov doe
No despite Trump's claim prior to the election that if he lost it would be stolen.
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Huju – I'll take 'no facts' over making up my own and getting the FBI to sign off on them… just saying
DovidBT
@CTLAWYER
Is there a limit to the number of times a Vice President can be elected?
Hypothetical scenario:
A person is elected as VP. Six months into his term, the President dies, and the VP becomes President for the remainder of the term.
Then another candidate is elected as President along with the SAME Vice President. Again, the President dies after six months, and the VP becomes President again.
Could that weird scenario repeat indefinitely (until the VP succumbs to old age)?
smerel
I have no evidence that the election was stolen but I don't put it past anyone to engage in election fraud.
The Democrats spent many years telling me that Trump only won because of Russian collusion without giving me any evidence either. Apparently they don't believe that winning the election through voter fraud is particularly difficult.
Why should I now assume that none took place? Because the people who four years ago were telling me about the election being a result of Russian collusion are now telling me that all such claims are false and baseless?
Yserbius123
As soon as the results were called, Guiliani et al were already pushing forward various theories about how the election was stolen. All of them were thrown out of court for not having a leg to stand on. This is pretty good evidence that the "stolen election" narrative is an invention for the profit of Trump's team and nothing else
Recently, Arizona's Maricopa County completed a massive and controversial audit of the election. The worst things that the audit found was a deleted hard drive and a bunch of mail-in ballots that were sent to the wrong address. Neither would have been enough to swing the election results in the state of Arizona
Mr. Pillow Man has been releasing video after video claiming to have evidence that the election servers were hacked. He has yet to release a single shred of said evidence and instead resorts to giving air time to people who claim to have seen the hacking
Notably, nobody who supports the narrative has had a single consistent story since day one. Every time a claim has been debunked, a new one surfaces. It shows pretty clearly that it's not a narrative based on data, but rather evidence is being invented to fit the narrative.
CTLAWYER, I should have said, no president can be elected more than twice, so he does not own the office as AAQ presumed.
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I was thinking the same question. Is it karka – White House, or is it movable – Obama's "a phone and a pen", and I presume also a red button. Also, I think we presume that non-Jews always steel karka so you let them cut the arovos and they seem to agree now (happy indigenous day!): Brits stole White House karka from Indians, Colonists from Brits, Brits burnt it by halakha of a rebellious city.
Ctlawyer, what happens on Jan 20 if an election continues being in legal dispute – supreme-court-ordered recount or revote, electors deadlocked, House deadlocked?
Also, is gezelah a high crime and can a President be impeached for that? probably not of movables
It's quite funny. For four years the Democrats cried that Trump won in 2016 via fraud. After 2020 the Democrats claimed fraud is rare to non-existent.
In 2018 the Democrats cried Brian Kemp won in Georgia illegitimately and that they will not recognize his win. Suddenly in 2020 the Democrats decreed that it is "undemocratic" for the loser to not recognize the winner.
huju- No facts are a hallmark of the left.
CTL – Actually, there's no limit on how many years a person can be president. A person can be elected Vice President an unlimited number of times and then repeatedly assume the office of the presidency with the resignation of the President-elect or President.
Yesr -"As soon as the results were called, Guiliani et al were already pushing forward various theories about how the election was stolen. All of them were thrown out of court for not having a leg to stand on."
That's because the So-called Honest Judges don't want to see the evidence!
From previous:
UJM: A person who isn't qualified to be President (for whatever reason) cannot be elected vice-president.
Gadolhadorah
Is there a yiddeshe version of "Groundhog Day"??
Jenna Ellis was back on OAN this weekend to reveal that she and Mike Lindell now have "irrefutable" evidence of election fraud that will result in the five key swing states revoking their certification of the Biden win and Congress, in turn, will inovke the 25th Amendment to restore Trump to office prior to 2024.
And no, I'm not creative enough to make up this kind of meshugaas that sadly is believed by millions of the Trumpkopfs.
yechiell
no it was not.
but did mexico pay for that wall?
seems like a better question
If the election were stolen how did those who rigged the election allow Republican candidates for Congress to outperform Trump by large margins. Wouldn't they have also stolen those races? The pillow guy has had irrefutable evidence for 11 months and so far has produced nothing. Will he reveal what he has by the Trump campaign yartzeit?
anonymous Jew
GH, you have to admit that Democratics denigrating Republican claims of fraud, legitimate or not, are somewhat hypocritical. Afrer all, Stacy Abrams gained prominence in the Democratic Party precisely because she never stopped claiming, without proof, that she was a victim of voter fraud. Hillary still calls Trump the illegitimate president.
>>>If the election were stolen how did those who rigged the election allow Republican candidates for Congress to outperform Trump by large margins. Wouldn't they have also stolen those races?
Actually the irregularity of that (1)so many more votes were cast for Republican congressional candidates and that (2) so many people voted only on the presidential level but ignored the congressional races has been used as a proof of voter fraud.
It is totally not a question as to why did the fraud only occur on the presidential level? (1)There was a much bigger passion among the fraudsters to see Biden win/Trump lose and (2)it is much easier to spread it out and make the fraud less noticeable on a presidential level
YD -"Wouldn't they have also stolen those races?"
They did. That's why they (DemonCrats) have both houses.
If they won everything, by wide margins, even a guy like you would know that there was Fraud!
"The pillow guy has had irrefutable evidence for 11 months and so far has produced nothing. Will he reveal what he has by the Trump campaign yartzeit?"
Why do you Libs keep saying that?
He produced a Documentary on the Election Fraud very soon after the Election.
And what did the Libs & Media do?
They censored it. If it wasn't true, you put up a Refuting Documentary. But instead they acted like a Commy Country and censored the whole thing!
akuperma
It was "stolen" by Donald Trump. The results for offices other than president appear to indicate that 2020 should have been a good year from the Republicans, but the man at the head of the ticket managed to "steal" defeat from the jaws of victory by his own incompetence as a politician.
If the Democrats were stuffing the ballot boxes, there would have been a massive blue wave, since election cheats never split their ticket.
Akuperma -"If the Democrats were stuffing the ballot boxes, there would have been a massive blue wave, since election cheats never split their ticket."
That's your mistake.
The Steal was with the Election Computer Systems.
They made sure that DemonCrats won Both Houses, but not by a lot. So it wouldn't be too obvious that it was Stolen!
Trump would actually have had a better argument if he had retained legitimate election experts and lawyers to press his claims. Instead, he went forward with the biggest show and clowns ever assembled in the history of American election litigation starting with Guiliani, Ellis and that world-renowned dog-pillow expert, Mike Lindell to lead the charge. Even otherwise sympathetic Trump judges, including SCOTUS, threw them out of court on both substantive and standing grounds. In depositions, Crazy Rudy claimed he "knew nothing" about election laws in the states where he appeared to claim fraud and also said he had no obligation to undertake even minimal diligence or verification of the allegations he included in his filings. As to Lindell, the guy seems in desperate need of professional intervention (along with his chevra in the Cyber Ninjas of Arizona fame)
>>>Trump would actually have had a better argument if he had retained legitimate election experts and lawyers to press his claims.
Initially Trump did in fact try to legitimate election experts and lawyers to press his claims.
The harassments those law firms got from Democrats caused them to drop the case. The harassments those law firms and anyone who dared say that "MAYBE fraud took place let's look into the allegations " got from Democrats is one of the reasons I'm not convinced it didn't take place.
Not saying it did of course. Just that I don't know but DO know that if it did the Democrats and media would lie and do whatever else they could to cover it up.
The Democrats have a history of electoral fraud.
jackk
Stop blaming democrats.
Trump's own people in government – from the US Attorney General (who he considered his personal lawyer) to his own staff – told him to take a long walk off a short pier.
There was never even a single valid allegation of fraud. They were all wild bizarre conspiracy theories.
The law firms saw straight through the dictator wanna be and weren't willing to risk their reputation and livelihoods on the con man.
The lawyers that followed Trump have all paid the price for trying to destroy American democracy.
>>>The lawyers that followed Trump have all paid the price for trying to destroy American democracy.
Wow! Your whole post is so full of emotion, malice and slavish party line propaganda I can only only ask do you really think you are more objective about this than a crazy Trump supporter?
For me personally the fact that Democrats SCREAM and RAVE with some emotion and ridicule about this issue is one of the reasons that (1)I don't trust them and (2)I think that deep down they realize that maybe there really was election fraud.
To quote Shakespeare "Methinks that women doth protest too much"
Smerel,
Didn't realize that you have an internet emotion detector. If I knew, I would have first taken some valium and xanax before typing. Or is that your way of trying to win an argument by attacking the person?
Democrats SCREAM and RAVE that there are trump supporters, including current members of congress, who would have allowed and encouraged Pence to unconstitutionally decide the election for Trump.
Democrats SCREAM and RAVE that even after Jan 6th 2020, most of the republican party will still vote for Trump for President in 2024.
Democrats SCREAM and RAVE that republican's assume that the democrat's have to prove that there was no fraud when it is the burden of trump to prove that there was.
We almost lost our democracy on January 6th 2021 and we still could.
The point is that the democrats and the media (including Fox) were not the ones who realized immediately that all of Trump's claims were bogus and fake. It was his own people. His own administration. His own republican's. ( and for Health's entertainment – his own RATpublican's.)
Oh Jackk -"There was never even a single valid allegation of fraud. They were all wild bizarre conspiracy theories"
It's funny how you DemonCrats resort to lying to Manipulate e/o.
If you wrote that most allegations are false, that could possibly be believed.
I hope that you are in the Middle Class, because they are Doomed due to Taxes!
BTW, go watch the video from the Truck contractor that said his route was changed and they refused to let him have his usual trailer back.
All the right wing news figure because he picked up votes in Long Island and brought them to Pa.
Most NY votes went to Biden. So they switched the Votes in Pa. to make sure Biden won.
Yea, a simple Truck driver is Making "wild bizarre conspiracy theories"!
No facts allowed!


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Wolf Hole to Nevada State Line.
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Other articles: BLM Route 1007 at Mohave Cty Rd 101 Junction: BLM Route 1007, south through Black Canyon along Pocum Wash to the Grand Wash Cliffs.
Pocum Cove to the north.
Mud Mountain to the south.
Cottonwood Spring approximately 4 miles north.
A single collection of Frasera albomarginata was made near Cottonwood Spring.
Junction: County Road 242, through Lime Kiln Canyon to Mesquite, Arizona.


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Hartford HealthCare Increases Minimum Hourly Rate to $15
More than 2,400 employees to benefit from increase, effective March 31
Hartford HealthCare today (Monday, 1/14) announced it will increase its minimum hourly rate to $15, effective March 31, 2019.
The new pay rate will directly benefit more than 2,400 of Hartford HealthCare's approximately 20,000 employees throughout Connecticut. These employees provide important services across the organization and directly touch the lives of patients and customers.
"This important decision is a reflection of our respect for our staff and a product of our core value of integrity that calls us to 'do the right thing,' " said Elliot Joseph, Chief Executive Officer of Hartford HealthCare. "Investing in the financial security of those who work with us is further recognition of everyone's contributions to carrying out our mission."
Joseph noted the benefits of a higher minimum hourly rate extend well beyond paychecks. "We know, and studies have shown, there is a direct link between greater financial security and better health outcomes," he said. "A healthier Hartford HealthCare workforce benefits all of us."
Hartford Healthcare expects the additional investment in its staff will increase employee retention, help attract great applicants for open positions, improve employee satisfaction, and create a greater sense of belonging in the organization.
The decision came after months of thoughtful consideration and planning.
"Working alongside all of you as part of the Hartford HealthCare team fills me with great pride," Joseph wrote to employees. "I hope that all staff members share my pride in being part of an organization that always strives to live its values."
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Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh, North and Leith) (Lab/Co-op): The hon. Gentleman reminded us that his party strongly opposed the Edinburgh congestion charge. I am sure that he is aware that, as a result of that defeat, inspired by the Liberal Democrats and others, the city council now faces a shortfall in its budget for its light rail schemes. Given what the hon. Gentleman is saying, I would have thought that the Liberal Democrats would want to see that shortfall met. Unfortunately, the Minister for Transport and Telecommunications on the Scottish Executive, who is a Liberal Democrat, has turned down the request for extra funding. Will the hon. Gentleman urge his colleague to supply that extra funding?
Tom Brake: The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there is a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition Government in Scotland, so it is unfair to heap responsibility solely on a Liberal Democrat Minister. The hon. Gentleman implies that Liberal Democrats should be in favour of congestion charge schemes wherever they are and whatever form they take. That would be an irresponsible position. We need to look at each individual congestion charging scheme and see whether it is appropriate for that city. In London, we felt that it was appropriate; in Edinburgh, we did not.
Dr. Pugh: The Secretary of State answered his own question. He said that in order to have a good congestion charge that works well, one needs an enviable transport structure, including an underground and other services that London has and Edinburgh has not.
Tom Brake: I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention. One of the necessities for the introduction of a congestion charge is a public transport network that provides people with an alternative when the scheme is introduced.
Mark Lazarowicz: Given the hon. Gentleman's obvious hostility to new road building, will he confirm that he opposes the proposal to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a new road bridge across the Forth?
Tom Brake: The point that I have made about road building is that the Secretary of State has allowed the Department for Transport road-building programme to swell by an extra £1 billion and has not been successful in keeping those costs under control. We favour keeping the costs under control.
Objective three is balancing the need to travel with the need to improve quality of life by improving safety and respect for the environment. Some solid progress has been made on the number of people killed or seriously injured in road accidents. There are, however, some areas in which further attention is needed. Those include child deaths on the road. The number of serious injuries has fallen significantly, but the number of deaths is not falling at the same rate. We are also seeing an increase in the numbers killed or seriously injured while riding two-wheeled motor vehicles.
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I do have time to address the issue of air quality in detail. However, the Government's own performance report acknowledges that only four out of seven of the targets in that area will be met. I hope that the Government will not seek to achieve the remaining targets by revising the methodology to make it easier to achieve them. I understand that the Government intend to issue a revised methodology at some point—I thought it would be last month, but perhaps it will be this month—for measuring the air quality around Heathrow. It will be interesting to see whether the outcome will be to make it easier to meet the air quality standards for the area around Heathrow and so enable the third runway to go ahead.
I hope that the Government will demonstrate more joined-up government on greenhouse gas emissions. The public squabble between the Departments for Trade and Industry and for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs about how to achieve the target and how challenging it should be is not helpful in dealing with what the Prime Minister described as one of our most significant problems.
Mr. Nick Hurd (Ruislip-Northwood) (Con): The hon. Gentleman acknowledged the problem of congestion, but although I have listened carefully to his speech I have not heard a Lib Dem solution. Will he clarify whether he supports the Government in their move towards a national road pricing scheme at an estimated cost of between £14 billion and £60 billion on a revenue-neutral basis? The lesson from London is that to change motorists' behaviour requires a strong price signal. Does not the evidence undermine the logic of a revenue-neutral approach and throw into question the wisdom of spending several billion pounds on it?
Tom Brake: I am happy to clarify our position. We are on record as supporting road-user pricing and saying that, for it to work, to be acceptable or palatable to the public, it must be revenue-neutral. That would mean getting rid of petrol duty and vehicle excise duty, otherwise the policy would be unsaleable to the public. If we want people to buy into a scheme of such size and complexity, we shall have to offer them that carrot.
The Secretary of State challenged figures supplied by his Department that stated that, taking into account inflation, VAT and optimism bias, there has been an underestimate for road-building schemes before 2003 of about £1 billion. He should have got that situation under control but he has failed to do so. We have asked the National Audit Office to investigate why there has been such a failure to address those underestimates and the significant cost increases for road-building schemes.
Several Members asked about Liberal Democrat transport policies. Our first priority will be to ensure that transport is fairer. A significant number of people still do not have access to cars, including the young, many senior citizens and people on low incomes. They are thus denied access to services or find it difficult to reach them. Unfortunately, many other Government policies demonstrate a lack of joined-up government.
For example, post office closures mean that people with no access to a car find it much harder to use those valuable services.
Mr. Wills: Is the hon. Gentleman aware of the Government's support for concessionary travel? For example, in my constituency, Swindon borough council has benefited from nearly £1 million to make it available for precisely the groups that he wants to help.
Tom Brake: I am very aware of the Government's concessionary fares scheme and I welcome it. My only concern is that local authorities consider that it is severely underfunded and that the £350 million allocated will not cover the costs. Some local authorities are having to make adjustments to fares for existing passengers to try to accommodate the extra costs that will arise due to concessionary fares.
Paul Rowen: Is my hon. Friend aware that Tyne and Wear passenger transport authority faces a shortfall of £7.4 million as a result of the introduction of concessionary fares? The PTA will be forced to cut the very bus services that the scheme was supposed to encourage people to use.
Tom Brake: I thank my hon. Friend for that useful intervention. I hope that the Secretary of State is listening carefully and will respond positively to Tyne and Wear's approaches on that front.
Jim Cousins (Newcastle upon Tyne, Central) (Lab): May I throw some light on that point? Yesterday, the Government announced additional and substantial support for Tyne and Wear, which means that free travel will be extended to the Tyne and Wear metro system. The director general of the passenger transport executive described the figures that the hon. Member for Rochdale (Paul Rowen) has just cited as "crude", so will the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake) advise his Liberal Democrat friends in Tyne and Wear not to support premature cuts in the bus services while we are working through the issue?
Tom Brake: I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. If he is right that additional funds have been provided to allow the metro service to be incorporated, that is a positive development.
We must help people who do not have access to cars. Fairness in transport must be a priority, and that involves enhancing passenger safety. I understand that a report will be published tomorrow that highlights the fact that the state of many of our stations is so poor that that, in itself, pushes people away from rail services, thus exacerbating the lack of accessibility to many train services. We need to grow the bus network. A number of hon. Members alluded to the fact that bus deregulation is an issue outside London, because bus companies can stop and start their services and threaten to withdraw bus services if they do not receive subsidy for a service that had been run previously by the private company. Light rail systems should be promoted, as they have a key role to play in many parts of the country in providing accessible transport, particularly for people with disabilities.